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0. R. FUREY.

BREAST STRAP SLIDE AND HOOK.

No. 264,685. Patentad Sept. 19, 1882.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC CYRUS It. FUREY, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN H. BARNHAR'I, F SAME PLACE.

BREAST-STRAP SLIDE AND HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,685, dated September 19, 1882.

Application filed July 6, 1882. (N0 model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS It. FUREY, of Logansport, Cass county, Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Breast-Strap Slide and Hook, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the device for connecting the pole-strap to the breast-strap; and it consists ofa contrivance of the slide by which the connection is fitted on the breast-strap, calculated to render it more durable of itself and less wearing to the strap, also to retain it better in its proper position on the breast-strap when hanging by one hook, also to facilitate the connection of the martingale; and the invention also consists of improvements in the hook for the connection of the pole-stra to the slide, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 2o drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a section of a breast-strap with my imprpved slide and pole-strap hook applied to it, and also showing the martingale attached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved breast-strap and poles strap hook with a part broken out to show the latch contrivancc ot' the hook. Y

0 The pole-strap slide consists of the inner plate, a, outer plate, b, and connecting-bars 0, through which the breast-strap d is arranged,

as in other slides, for allowing the requisite play of the slide on the strap. To prevent the plate a from chafing the strap by its corners, I widen the plate considerably more than the bars 0 and curvethe side of it next to the strap, as shown at c, so as to prevent the contact of the corners of the edges of said plate with the 40 strap, the curvatures being such that the strap will be protected from the corners of the plate in the most oblique strains the slide is sub jected to in practice. I also widen the plate 1) outside of the strap, extending the sidesfon 4 5 the same curvature as the rest of the plate, the object of this extension being to cause the slide to cramp and bind on the strap by the unbaL anced or overhanging parts attached when the breast-strap hangs by one end only, and-thus prevent the slide from falling from its place at the middle position of the strap.

To the hook g for the connection of the polestrap to the breaststrap, and having a snaplatch, h, for securely retaining the pole-strap,

I arrange the spring 6 in a simple and efficient way by coiling it around the pivotj in a notch in the end of the snap, lodging one end against the shoulder k and the other end against the arm Z, which I provide on the latch h for the purpose, and also for a means of locking latch h, by means of curved latch m acting by gravitation, and also by means of a spring, a, coiled around the pivot 0 of said latch, and bearing on the bottom of the slot in which the latch is pivoted and on said latch, so as to throw up the short end m and maintain the contact of said end with the end of arm Z, as shown in Fig. 2. It will be seen that by pressing latch m into the slot of the base of the hook in which it is pivoted the latch It will be released, and it will also be seen'that said latch m is so far inclosed in the slot that no part ot'it is exposed,

so as to catch on anything likely to injure it or be injured by it.

Another improvement of the strap slide 7 5 which I propose is the hook attachment 1), which I make to it for the purpose of connecting the martingale 1 by its eye 3, which is retained in place by a spring key, q, passed through the hook after the eye of the martin- 8o gale has been placed thereon.

I do not limit myself to the arrangement of springs herein shown by me, for coiled springs may be used instead, the one for the arm I being lodged in a socket in the upper side of said arm and in a socket in the upper wall of the slot, and the spring for latch m being similarly lodged in slots in said latch and the wall of the slot under the latch.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The herein-described breast-strap slide, consisting of the inner plate, 00, having the inwardly-curved side extensions, 0, the connecting bars 0, and the outer plate, I), having 5 curved side extensions, f, and provided with the pole-strap hook g and a martingalehook,

p, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the outer plate, b, abutting against the projection Z of the latch of a breast-strap slide, provided with the reh, and the spring 12, coiled around the pivot 0 1o ccssed hook g, of the latch h, provided with the of the said latch, substantially as and for the projection l and pivoted in the recess of the purpose set forth.

5 said hook, the spring 2', coiled around the pivot CYRUS R. FUREY.

' 9 of the said latch, the curved latch m, pivoted \Vitnesses:

in the opposite side of the recess of the hook, G. A. YOKST,

and having an inwardly-projecting end, mg Q. A. MYERS. 

